*** 'THE OFFICIAL MOVIE THREAD' ***

[Tal]

At Uni, I came up with - and tried to convince some arty people to subscribe to - an idea I'd had for a film. It essentially was a zombie film. The twist was that everyone was dead. Everyone. This is one zombie's attempts to get a society restarted from the trudging masses of London. It plays on our basic human intuition and so on, so there eventually becomes a zombie hierarchy, primitive shops, parliament eventually.

It didn't get any support.

On Graham Norton now is a man publicising a film wherein everyone is a zombie and this one teenage zombie falls in love, but has an internal monologue, trying slowly to better himself and get a society going.

FFS.

[bobAlike]

What did you want to call it Tal? Who would you have cast for the leading roles?

[Ant040689]

Couldn't believe Waltz did not gett Oscar nommed. Stole every scene he was in

Agree.

I think he did it by slowing down the pace of his sentences and generally creating an aura of, 'I am a nice guy'. Also some pretty smiley facial expressions.

Thought the film was a solid 7.5/10, and I think a little off how good Inglorious Bastards was, but was thoroughly enjoyable. Watch out for Jamie Foxx in it who puts forth a really understated performance where another actor could have ruined it by being way too over the top.

[the sicilian]

Drive

Had put off watching this as a few here I think said it was really good...  In essence a basic tale of a stunt driver who supplements his income with a bit of getaway driving. He moves into a new apartment where the local totty catches his eye whose old man is in jail.. They strike an unlikely friendship unti the said husband returns from jail. Our hero decides to help the femme fatal by proxy when he agrees to drive for the husband in a robbery to get him out of a hole with the local bad guys he owes...
The robbery goes wrong husband gets killed and so unravels a tale of your basic betrayal and greed.

Drive is beautifully shot against a backdrop of an often moodily lit LA.... But as we go along the whole thing begins to feel self indulgent as though the director is making his own visual porn that he can bung on late at night when his all alone, play with himself and congratulate himself on how clever he is with a camera and lighting. We have multiple slow mo scenes that after a while just begin to grate.

Ryan Gosling is cast as our lead... I'm sure he was asked to do mean and moody but he just comes across as a pretty Forest Gump... He spends lots of the film just staring silently looking like his gradulally getting to the answer of 2+2... Despite occasional interjections of extreme violence, the fact of the matter is Mr Gosling is not scary or menacing. he looks like a fresh faced paper boy. God knows what the girl sees in him as his conversation is minimal at best. Believe me mate girls only dig silent moody for so long..at some stage you will have to talk to them .

I know what's trying to be achieved here..sort of art house meets Tarantino beautiful visuals mixed with visceral violence. What we get is slow moving bore with a mix of boring characters and cliched villains.. Even tHe car chases are pretty boring. In an attempt to get away from mainstream action films we have an action film that forgot to put good action in...

All this topped with a ludicrous illogical ending turns a decent premise into a mish mash that can't quite make up its mind what it wants to be..

Disappointing. 5/10

[I KNOW IT]

Drive

Had put off watching this as a few here I think said it was really good...  In essence a basic tale of a stunt driver who supplements his income with a bit of getaway driving. He moves into a new apartment where the local totty catches his eye whose old man is in jail.. They strike an unlikely friendship unti the said husband returns from jail. Our hero decides to help the femme fatal by proxy when he agrees to drive for the husband in a robbery to get him out of a hole with the local bad guys he owes...
The robbery goes wrong husband gets killed and so unravels a tale of your basic betrayal and greed.

Drive is beautifully shot against a backdrop of an often moodily lit LA.... But as we go along the whole thing begins to feel self indulgent as though the director is making his own visual porn that he can bung on late at night when his all alone, play with himself and congratulate himself on how clever he is with a camera and lighting. We have multiple slow mo scenes that after a while just begin to grate.

Ryan Gosling is cast as our lead... I'm sure he was asked to do mean and moody but he just comes across as a pretty Forest Gump... He spends lots of the film just staring silently looking like his gradulally getting to the answer of 2+2... Despite occasional interjections of extreme violence, the fact of the matter is Mr Gosling is not scary or menacing. he looks like a fresh faced paper boy. God knows what the girl sees in him as his conversation is minimal at best. Believe me mate girls only dig silent moody for so long..at some stage you will have to talk to them .

I know what's trying to be achieved here..sort of art house meets Tarantino beautiful visuals mixed with visceral violence. What we get is slow moving bore with a mix of boring characters and cliched villains.. Even tHe car chases are pretty boring. In an attempt to get away from mainstream action films we have an action film that forgot to put good action in...

All this topped with a ludicrous illogical ending turns a decent premise into a mish mash that can't quite make up its mind what it wants to be..

Disappointing. 5/10

Any chance of putting spoiler alerts at the top of your reviews? Its good that they are detailed but you do give away a little too much in them, especially in your Taken2 review.

Thankfully I had already seen both Drive and Taken 2

[millidonk]

wtf? Drive is incred 8.5/10

my run good of films soon came to an end, after enjoying  rust and bone, silver linings, Argo, django unchained, seven psychopaths, pitch perfect, and the impossible I then had an awful run of cards with the hobbit,  zero dark thirty, video game high school and les miserables.being very selective with the next few hands I play.

[Chompy]

You liked Pitch Perfect and The Impossible Milli?

Januarys are normally golden but this month I've had a string of flounce-outs within the hour; Gangster Squad, The Impossibl(y bad), Pitch Perfect and the woeful Quartet.

[Tal]

What did you want to call it Tal? Who would you have cast for the leading roles?

I hadn't got to that stage in fairness. I just had a story with some basic plot ideas, a few scenes with a bit of detail - zombie parliament ftw - and the underlying question of 'if you could start again, what would you do?'.

[millidonk]

You liked Pitch Perfect and The Impossible Milli?

Januarys are normally golden but this month I've had a string of flounce-outs within the hour; Gangster Squad, The Impossibl(y bad), Pitch Perfect and the woeful Quartet.

Don't get me wrong, Pitch Perfect was the missus' choice and going into it I thought I would utterly hate it but I can't lie, I pissed myself laughing and thoroughly enjoyed it!! I must add I have never watched an episode of glee but like to take the piss out of one of my mates who openly admits to liking it, give it a try imo. Yea enjoyed the impossible, but that was by far the least favourite out of my list. I would say 6.5/10. I thought the scenes at the beginning were really well shot and very powerful, but the storyline itself was lacking, some of the worst parental decisions I have ever seen coming from Ewan but all in all I wasn't left hating my life when it finished.

Would suggest everyone watches Rust and Bone. Not seen the categories for best foreign film but this should walk it if it has been nominated.

I have everybody's fine and beasts of the southern wild to watch tonight, got big hopes for both.

[nirvana]

You liked Pitch Perfect and The Impossible Milli?

Januarys are normally golden but this month I've had a string of flounce-outs within the hour; Gangster Squad, The Impossibl(y bad), Pitch Perfect and the woeful Quartet.

Love the idea of a great big lump like you joining the queue for pitch perfect - incred scenes, such an enigma wazzer

[millidonk]

You liked Pitch Perfect and The Impossible Milli?

Januarys are normally golden but this month I've had a string of flounce-outs within the hour; Gangster Squad, The Impossibl(y bad), Pitch Perfect and the woeful Quartet.

Love the idea of a great big lump like you joining the queue for pitch perfect - incred scenes, such an enigma wazzer

Looolz, That would be comedy, stood there in a sea of 15yr old girls, chomping on starburst and making a pretend phone call talking about football and bruce lee. Fortunately I watched it in the house, obv need to keep hold of some of my street cred.

[nirvana]

You liked Pitch Perfect and The Impossible Milli?

Januarys are normally golden but this month I've had a string of flounce-outs within the hour; Gangster Squad, The Impossibl(y bad), Pitch Perfect and the woeful Quartet.

Love the idea of a great big lump like you joining the queue for pitch perfect - incred scenes, such an enigma wazzer

Looolz, That would be comedy, stood there in a sea of 15yr old girls, chomping on starburst and making a pretend phone call talking about football and bruce lee. Fortunately I watched it in the house, obv need to keep hold of some of my street cred.

lol, that's exactly what I had in mind. tbf, he would have been wearing a Peterborough shirt to up the man factor

[the sicilian]

Drive

Had put off watching this as a few here I think said it was really good...  In essence a basic tale of a stunt driver who supplements his income with a bit of getaway driving. He moves into a new apartment where the local totty catches his eye whose old man is in jail.. They strike an unlikely friendship unti the said husband returns from jail. Our hero decides to help the femme fatal by proxy when he agrees to drive for the husband in a robbery to get him out of a hole with the local bad guys he owes...
The robbery goes wrong husband gets killed and so unravels a tale of your basic betrayal and greed.

Drive is beautifully shot against a backdrop of an often moodily lit LA.... But as we go along the whole thing begins to feel self indulgent as though the director is making his own visual porn that he can bung on late at night when his all alone, play with himself and congratulate himself on how clever he is with a camera and lighting. We have multiple slow mo scenes that after a while just begin to grate.

Ryan Gosling is cast as our lead... I'm sure he was asked to do mean and moody but he just comes across as a pretty Forest Gump... He spends lots of the film just staring silently looking like his gradulally getting to the answer of 2+2... Despite occasional interjections of extreme violence, the fact of the matter is Mr Gosling is not scary or menacing. he looks like a fresh faced paper boy. God knows what the girl sees in him as his conversation is minimal at best. Believe me mate girls only dig silent moody for so long..at some stage you will have to talk to them .

I know what's trying to be achieved here..sort of art house meets Tarantino beautiful visuals mixed with visceral violence. What we get is slow moving bore with a mix of boring characters and cliched villains.. Even tHe car chases are pretty boring. In an attempt to get away from mainstream action films we have an action film that forgot to put good action in...

All this topped with a ludicrous illogical ending turns a decent premise into a mish mash that can't quite make up its mind what it wants to be..

Disappointing. 5/10

Any chance of putting spoiler alerts at the top of your reviews? Its good that they are detailed but you do give away a little too much in them, especially in your Taken2 review.

Thankfully I had already seen both Drive and Taken 2

Sorry for the spoilers bud thought most had seen it s 3 years old I think?   Maybe should stick to brief aments rather than reviews

[EvilPie]

God knows why you'd need spoiler alerts for Taken 2 unless you haven't seen Taken?

I haven't seen it yet but I'd guess along the lines of.......

Wife, daughter and/or wifes rich husband somehow get in to a ridic kidnapping situation. Hope it's not the daughter because nobody's that unlucky

Neeson kills lots of people using skills even Jack Bauer still has to learn.

Neeson, mum and daughter end up happy. Bad guys end up dead.

Am I close?

[the sicilian]

You liked Pitch Perfect and The Impossible Milli?

Januarys are normally golden but this month I've had a string of flounce-outs within the hour; Gangster Squad, The Impossibl(y bad), Pitch Perfect and the woeful Quartet.

Kids made me put on pitch perfect at Xmas..wasn't looking forward to it but have to admit to rather enjoying it too.... Upbeat and funny made a refreshing change..

Picked up a screener version of les mis ... I quite like a good west end musical but I cannot stand the ones that sing the dialogue as well fucking tilts me to high heaven... I thought I'd have a shufty to make sure the quality was ok.. Straight away you could see the quality of production and visuals .... But a minute of Crowe and Hackman singing to each other had me reaching for the stop button..I also noticed its like over two and a half hours long... The missus can watch that on her own

Lined up for this snowy weekend :

Lawless... Looking forward to this

The Sweeney ... Lol  gotta love Ray Winstone... Used to come in one of my shops few years back..only actor I know who has to tone down his personality whilst on screen... Talk about larger than life...what a character !

Django.... Another one I'm itching to see..like Jamie Foxx and Tarantino is awesome..king of dialogue mixed with bullet to the head violence... I also have Jackie Brown on the back burner

Zero dark thirty... Hoping this isn't truly shyte